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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare · Mauricio Rua vs Paul Craig
From the tape · 16 Nov 2019

Mauricio Rua vs Paul Craig

UFC Fight Night: Blachowicz vs. Jacare · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Jerin Valel

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

MR
Red corner MauricioRua“Shogun”Universidade da Luta · Born in Curitiba, Brazil · Fights out of Curitiba, Brazil
VSOn the tape
PC
Blue corner PaulCraig“Bearjew”Scottish Hit Squad · Born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland · Fights out of Coatbridge, Scotland
Light Heavyweight3 rounds16 Nov 2019At the time: Mauricio Rua was #14 at Light Heavyweight · rankings of 11 November 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Craig’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Craig.
27-14-1
Record
17-10-1
37
Age
−6 yr31
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1119
UFC bouts
8
8/1080% of wins
Finishes
+20%4/4100% of wins
Universidade da Luta
Gym
Scottish Hit Squad
Curitiba, Brazil
Born in
Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Curitiba, Brazil
Fights out of
Coatbridge, Scotland
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mauricio Rua7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 1
Paul Craig31 sig landed
HEAD65%20 of 41BODY26%8 of 13LEGS10%3 of 4
7 of 24
Sig.
strikes
31 of 58
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:24
Control
1:05
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rua firstGuilherme Bravo8–10Sal D'Amato9–10Marcelo Vilhena9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Mauricio Rua9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 22BODY0%0 of 1LEGS11%1 of 1
Paul Craig10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 11BODY30%3 of 4LEGS10%1 of 1
9 of 24
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:37
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Rua firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Marcelo Vilhena10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mauricio Rua9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 12BODY11%1 of 1LEGS33%3 of 5
Paul Craig10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 19BODY30%3 of 3LEGS30%3 of 3
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:20
Control
0:11
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Rua firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Marcelo Vilhena9–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · Jerin Valel
Mauricio RuaPaul Craig
Official totals — Mauricio Rua first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide28–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Marcelo Vilhena28–29

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 16 scored, Mauricio Rua first · unofficial

Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rua · 67%29-28 Craig · 18%29-27 Craig · 3%

174 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Mauricio Rua

2.01takedowns / 15 min
2.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.43 / 15m
4.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.94 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
18%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Paul Craig

1.43takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Mauricio Rua↑ +2.5pp
open 64.4%close 66.9%
Paul Craig↓ −2.5pp
open 35.6%close 33.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mauricio Rua opened at 64.4% and closed at 66.9% (+2.5pp), with Paul Craig moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Mauricio Rua-215-22964.4%66.9%+2.5pp
Paul Craig16519035.6%33.1%−2.5pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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